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Billy

>>But life can be a bitch sometimes.  There's you above with your paranoia.
In
>>your nightmare, you've probably messed up to be so low on gas for this to
be
>>an issue.  We all say, "not me" but humans will be fools sometimes, so I
>>recognise your concern.
>
>Or, possibly, I've done a hose on a single tank
>dive so I don't have gas for inflation or breathing,
>and my weightbelt is caught on my crotchstrap.

But this still gives you time to start your ascent without dropping a weight
belt of the time to free a crotch strap.  Loss of gas takes ages.  However, I
accept that it would be stressful and a newbie could panic.  *I* don't see
your example sufficient to weigh the balance in the favour of your case.

>>How are the mine dives going?
>>Fine, but you make it sound so un-romantic<snip>
>
>Didn't mean to make it sound less than the great adventure it 
>is. From your earlier story of the dives, I got this impression 
>of divers dropping fantastic distances - hundreds of feet - down 
>well-like, black-walled shafts and turning to glide through 
>endless square-cut galleries lined with pit-props and floored
>with sleepers. The mental images were like deep etched 
>illustrations in Boys Own annuals: Heroic lino-cuts showing 
>stuttering torch beams cutting into thick, ink-dark shadows and
>fading out down blackened passageways marked only with the 
>occasional skeleton in miner's helmet slumped over a shovel, 
>right where a spray of egg-size diamonds studs the wall.

Billy, so the truth comes out at last - your *have* dived at Badgat!  You
know what its like.  But you exaggerate about the diamonds.  There are no
diamonds, just emeralds and the odd nugget of gold.

David Shimell
Project Manager, Sequent Computer Systems Ltd., Sandton, South Africa.
Email: shimell@se*.co* <mailto:shimell@se*.co*> 

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